Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Build scalable, full-stack, AI-enabled products for BlackRock’s Aladdin investment compliance and analytics workflows. Lead technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. Apply generative AI, semantic search, retrieval, intelligent assistants, and agentic workflows responsibly. Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into deliverable solutions. Influence architecture, champion DevOps and SRE practices, mentor engineers, and promote quality, resilience, security, observability, and maintainability across a global organization.

Leads and scales Rapid7’s EMEA sales engineering organization, managing Solution Engineers and serving as the region’s strategic technical authority. Partners with sales, marketing, product, engineering, executives, and channel partners to drive revenue, retention, consultative security solutions, strategic proofs of concept, demonstrations, and enterprise deals. Represents the company at industry events and translates customer needs into product strategy while improving forecasting, leadership development, and presales performance.

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Lead and develop software engineering teams ranging from graduate to senior level. Coach employees, support career growth, promote engineering best practices, and foster continuous improvement and innovation. Collaborate with product and organizational stakeholders to balance short- and long-term goals, deliver software on schedule, and improve engineering processes through Agile practices, AI tools, CI/CD, and modern software development lifecycles.

Design and deliver scalable, production-grade AI solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role involves hands-on development, cloud solutioning, full-stack application development, LLM frameworks, RAG, vector databases, and data platforms. It also requires direct client and stakeholder interaction, with supply chain or manufacturing domain experience preferred. Candidates may work onsite with clients and partners and should be able to operate across multiple cloud platforms.

Lead and develop a team of 6–10 Quality Engineers while improving quality, release, and engineering practices across product teams. The role involves coaching, performance management, capacity planning, risk-based quality decisions, CI/CD and automation improvements, release readiness, incident learning, and responsible adoption of AI in quality workflows. The manager will lead cross-team improvements, coordinate with Principal Quality Engineers, and deputize for the Head of Quality Engineering.

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Lead the Pensions & Savings AI and Automation Engineering practice, defining technical strategy, delivery standards, operating models, roadmaps, and talent development. Build reusable AI agent and automation platforms, establish secure lifecycle controls, and guide solutions from experimentation into production. Partner with product, business, technology, data, risk, and enterprise AI teams to deliver measurable value. Provide hands-on technical leadership, oversee suppliers and investment, and build an inclusive, high-performing engineering organization.

AECOM is seeking ground engineering, geotechnical, engineering geology, tunnel, and structural engineering professionals at all levels across the UK. Responsibilities include delivering ground engineering and tunnelling projects, applying relevant technical standards and design codes, supporting projects from concept through operation, leading teams appropriately to experience, and contributing to innovative infrastructure solutions. Candidates need a relevant engineering or geology degree, project experience, willingness to travel throughout the UK, and a clean driving licence.

Leads engineering teams delivering bespoke laboratory equipment projects, servicing, calibration, repairs, and maintenance. Manages resources, schedules, budgets, customer relationships, proposals, technical documentation, facilities coordination, HSE compliance, and financial reporting. The role also supports equipment design, assembly, troubleshooting, technical sales, and laboratory operations.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within FanDuel’s Customer Product Engineering domain. Owns technical strategy, customer outcomes, availability, scalability, operational excellence, third-party integrations, regulatory requirements, responsible gaming systems, production support, hiring, budgets, and long-term architecture. Requires leadership of managers and senior engineers, experience with high-volume transactional systems, regulated environments, cloud infrastructure, modern back-end development, AI-assisted development, and executive communication.

Lead engineering across two global billing, payments, and API domains, owning technical and product strategy, cross-squad initiatives, stakeholder alignment, and people leadership for two teams. Diagnose systemic and organizational issues in a high-integrity data environment where reliability and reconciliation are critical. Drive customer-focused solutions, apply AI and LLMs for customer impact, manage hiring and performance, and support a shared global platform with configurable market-specific edges.

Leads the global Site Reliability Engineering strategy and operating model. Establishes SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, observability, automation, toil reduction, incident management, governance, and continuous improvement. Partners with engineering, infrastructure, security, and technology operations teams to improve reliability, resilience, scalability, and performance. Builds and develops high-performing SRE teams while driving operational transformation across critical technology platforms.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for an AI product delivery pod, translating product outcomes into secure, scalable, production-ready solutions. Leads internal and supplier engineers, oversees architecture, design and code reviews, establishes engineering standards, and selects appropriate AI approaches. Designs governed systems with auditability, provenance, human oversight and operational readiness, while mentoring teams and presenting technical progress to senior stakeholders.

Graduate engineers complete a three-month bootcamp followed by nine months on live banking projects. They gain experience across the engineering lifecycle, including coding, testing, deployment, Agile practices, data, AI-assisted tools, and modern engineering methods. The programme provides mentoring, certifications, and global collaboration opportunities, with support toward a permanent engineering role after successful completion.

Eight-week Engineering internship involving real business projects, Scrum ceremonies, agile and AI-assisted engineering practices, networking, and learning across banking technology functions. Interns contribute to engineering work, develop technical and problem-solving skills, collaborate with experts, and may progress to the graduate programme. The role requires a penultimate-year STEM student targeting a 2:1, with strong communication, analytical, data, experimentation, adaptability, and learning abilities.

Lead the Algorithms engineering team responsible for RoomPriceGenie’s pricing, forecasting, and data pipeline systems. Own delivery, reliability, technical quality, hiring, performance management, and team development. Partner with Product to shape priorities, validate outcomes through backtesting and quality metrics, and drive engineering improvements across the organization. Provide architectural guidance, design and code reviews, and occasional hands-on support while building a high-performing, accountable team.

Lead the engineering function on a remote consulting mission by setting technical direction, managing and mentoring engineers, driving the roadmap, overseeing complex delivery, improving engineering practices, and partnering with product and business stakeholders. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, architectural judgment, agile expertise, and evaluation of emerging technologies including cloud, AI, and blockchain.

Lead the engineering function for a growing technology company on a renewable consulting mission. Responsibilities include setting the engineering roadmap, managing and mentoring engineers, guiding architecture and technical decisions, leading complex projects, improving engineering practices, and collaborating with product and business stakeholders. The role requires hands-on technical involvement, strong software engineering expertise, and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies including cloud, AI, and blockchain. French fluency and strong English communication skills are mandatory.

Lead and mentor cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient cloud-native systems. Partner with product to define technical solutions, manage technical debt, hire and grow engineers, and drive engineering best practices. Hands-on leadership with strong frontend and distributed systems experience.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Oracle HCM and enterprise SaaS platforms supporting recruitment, talent, learning, helpdesk, and core HR. Own technical roadmaps, partner with product and architecture leaders, drive SaaS innovation and AI opportunities, and ensure platform reliability, security, supportability, and operational excellence. The role requires deep Oracle HCM expertise, strong people leadership, stakeholder management, and experience modernizing complex business-critical technology platforms.

Lead a team of 7–8 engineers building ENSEK’s Flex cloud-native energy platform. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, sprint planning, technical decision-making, architecture, engineering quality, CI/CD, testing, observability, incident response, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, UX, Data, and SRE. The role also contributes to team-model evolution and broader engineering strategy while ensuring reliable, commercially valuable product delivery.

Lead two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for Grafana’s frontend platform and navigation. Manage performance, hiring, team planning, coaching, delivery, technical direction, and cross-functional prioritization. Shape architecture, developer experience, accessibility, search, navigation, reliability, and multitenant capabilities. Engage customers and open-source contributors, improve engineering workflows through AI and automation, oversee operational standards, and participate in the engineering management on-call rotation.

Leads a professional services team delivering administrative support for teaching, learning, and research activities. Oversees academic-cycle administration, regulatory compliance, quality audits, reporting, process improvement, and student experience initiatives. Manages recruitment, performance, development, workload planning, and service delivery standards. Collaborates with academic leaders and professional services colleagues, supports education-related projects, resolves operational issues, and contributes to institutional committees and working groups.